Norris & Purdy: Gun owners, speak up about NRA

4:44 PM,
Nov. 19, 2013

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Opinion column by Gary Norris and Jerry Purdy

As Americans, we are bombarded with controversy about what to do in Syria. Chemical weapons used by Bashar al-Assad to gas to death 1,400 civilians - including over 400 children - is big news and roundly condemned.

But then some argue that this pales in comparison with the 110,000 slain by all violent means over the two-and-a-half-year civil war (44,000 a year on average). We were and still are ready to strike militarily in Syria and supply the opposition with aid with or without a military strike. There are heated discussions and vigorous demonstrations about this currently.